Coke Is Evil

Marq

This bottle of evil tastes so good.

Big Ears

LemmingBoy wrote:

I think one of the develish companys out ther is Nike with them paying poor 5 yr old asen kids 1 eu a week to make those shoes all u sick b*******s are wearingh right now YoU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

puts runners into a corner hopeing no-one will see them .

Phil_321

LemmingBoy wrote:

I think one of the develish companys out ther is Nike with them paying poor 5 yr old asen kids 1 eu a week to make those shoes all u sick b*******s are wearingh right now YoU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

Yeah, it'd be much better if Nike shut up shop and those kids starved to death..... I doubt some of these Asian countries have great welfare systems, so these kids are probably glad to have a job. I'd say there's a few countries in Africa wouldn't mind if Nike came in and opened a sweatshop.

Plus, they probably get free runners.

Stark

It's not just Nike anyway, it's just Nike were the ones highlighted. The other running shoe companies can be just as bad.

John R

Phil_321 wrote:

Yeah, it'd be much better if Nike shut up shop and those kids starved to death..... I doubt some of these Asian countries have great welfare systems, so these kids are probably glad to have a job. I'd say there's a few countries in Africa wouldn't mind if Nike came in and opened a sweatshop.

Plus, they probably get free runners.

LOL If they got free runners they could sell them for the equivalent of 6 months pay.

Corega

Kraft...the evil bastards are screening ugly fat women for Philadelphia ad's, for shame. Such an original typically German name to call a company too (it translates to Power).

Among their current inventory of brands are Kenco, Carte Noire, Maxwell House, Philadelphia, Dairylea, Terry's Chocolate, Dime bars, Toblerone, Milka, Oreo, Ritz Crackers, Bird's Custard and a whole load of other products with really corny names such as Clight (the g and h are silent ) and Cheese Whiz, which is cheese in a jar and looks about as appetizing as a New York cab driver's armpit.

Forgot to mention that they're owned by Philip Morris as was Miller until it was sold off to South African Breweries.

Stephen

I think Kraft translates to "strength" rather than power.

GreeBo

SantaHoe wrote:

Bill Gates sickens me though, all that money he could never spend even if he lived for a few hundred years, sure, he gives to charity, but it's a comparitive pittance... nothing more than guilt money.
With that amount of money, couldn't you at least pick some poor-ass family and take them to Disney land before they all die because they can't afford health insurance.

So he sickens you because he has lots of money?
By that logic a few million people in 3rd World Countries hate you too.
What percentage of your income do you give to charity?

Corega

Stephen wrote:

I think Kraft translates to "strength" rather than power.

My sincere apologies.

Gurgle

tba wrote:

Yeah but caffine requires alot of water to break down, (like alcohol), which dehydrates you and could lead to low blood pressure, increased heart rate, poorer skin elasticity, less efficient blood flow and in severe cases complete system shock and/or coma.

:eek:
Just what exactly would you have to do to yourself to cause a caffiene induced coma ?
Has it ever actually happened ?

segadreamcast

Hobbes wrote:

http://www.colombiasolidarity.org.uk/Solidarity%203/cocacola.html

Just because you want to make a profit doesn't mean you should be given free reign to ignore morality.

"This ban is being used by a group comprising of the global awareness society, Sinn Fein, labour and others to generate publicity for their mainly socialist agenda and to use the Coca Cola brand to do this.

They want to highlight the atrocities in Colombia, one of the most dangerous places in the world due to an ongoing civil war, using the brand’s fame. They claim that Coca Cola conspired in the murder of an employee and intimidated numerous others.

Great!….. so why say no to a Ban?

1. Well, firstly Coca Cola do not have full control over the particular companies involved in the allegations and therefore cannot be held liable. This was the conclusion of the Miami district court. (they own only a 40% shareholding.)
2. Secondly, even if you concluded that they were liable, the evidence surrounding the ONE murder ( not murders!) that took place on a Bottling plant is very dubious.


- Why? Because the Union putting forward the case against Coca Cola have strong links to the main terrorist organisations in Columbia FARC and ELN – strongly left wing ( and unashamedly corporate hating)


- All the other unions are against the ban. Even our own union SIPTU has come out against it.
- “sweeping and unsubstantiated.” SIPTU representative.

So why else?

3. Well, the only jobs that this ban will affect will be student jobs and then the Irish jobs of those working for Coca Cola.
4. This ban or “institutional boycott” as the pro ban group put it so nicely, is a restriction of the right to choose, what goods students want to buy.

So please let’s preserve the idea of innocent until proven otherwise, let’s respect the right to choose and let’s consider the job and financial implications of a ban for which the evidence is flimsy at best. "

- YFG.

Do shut up Coke haters.

Smellyirishman

Sarky wrote:

Who does Lucozade? I think I may have a slight problem...

Even worse about Luco is that it contains Phenylalanine, which is known to spur depression, then you go out and buy a luco to cheer you up

Says the guy with 2 500ml bottles beside him as he speaks, and a razor blade

And PS to everyone complaining, you have NO point if your buying the stuff, the companies have not lost thier humanity, you have lost your sense and self respect, so stop trying to blame them just because they are richer and smarter than you!

There is ALWAYS another option, windows/linux , coke/pepsi/coffe/even water!!(obviously not the kind you wear), nike/something that looks good

Shall I continue? Grow up

honru

I used to be a heavy Coke drinker; a day wouldn't go by without me tasting a drop of its sugary goodness. However, my teeth were suffering, and as soon as that were apperant in my teeth, I gave up my excessive ways. Now I opt for fruit juice and water, and for some reason I just feel better.

Stark

Even worse about Luco is that it contains Phenylalanine, which is known to spur depression, then you go out and buy a luco to cheer you up

Oh my god, that explains the depression I had 2 years ago after I gained a taste for Lucozade :O BASTARDS. Used to drink even more of it then because I thought "it made me feel better". Thought it was because it was too sweet so switched to Diet Drinks, but aspartame is also a source of phenylanine so that was no good Only feel normal after giving them up completely (plus other changes required to restore brain chemistry, still have to time snacks for serotonin boost).

Smellyirishman

See I told you! Always listen to me

Pet

Some little known points about caffeine (which I amassed after I became extremely sensitive to it):

-It's one of the most potent (non-prescription) drugs - just 20mg is enough to have a conscious effect

-It's purpose is as a poison for any insects that feed on the coffee plant

-Withdrawal symptoms from caffeine can actually be very severe - headaches, anxiety, severe depression, circulation & digestive impairment, etc

-Caffeine in moderate doses (ie 2+ cups of coffee) can cause severe anxiety attacks, heart palpitations, nausea, paranoia.

-Caffeine is actually hallucinogenic mid-to-high quantities (ie a couple of those pills that truckers use/400mg/about 6 cups of coffee). At this dosage it also causes convulsions, tremors, seizures and severe dizziness.

-ONE GRAM! of caffeine is enough to kill a person.

Here's some more info:
FAQ http://coffeefaq.com/caffaq.html

An experience of someone who took caffeine pills for the laugh (I bet he wanted to die).

An experience of someone who took too many caffeine pills, quite scary actually.


I know this stuff because I was having anxiety attacks, and they didn't stop until a few weeks after I gave up coffee (I wasn't even drinking much, 2 cups a day or so). I drink green tea now.

rainbow kirby

I thought the LD50 for caffeine was 10 grams... 0_o

Blub2k4

re: Kraft
You are both right, the meaning of kraft is contextual
Power can also be leistung
Kraftwerk = power station

Pet

I thought the LD50 for caffeine was 10 grams... 0_o

According to erowid.com (the Bible of drug users), the lethal dosage varies according to body mass and tolerance, but is usually between 1 and 4 grams. So for someone like myself, who is quite slight and sensitive to caffeine, 1g would be more than sufficient.

Mossy Monk

LemmingBoy wrote:

I think one of the develish companys out ther is Nike with them paying poor 5 yr old asen kids 1 eu a week to make those shoes all u sick b*******s are wearingh right now YoU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

mine say made in portugal, so does my arsenal jersey

elivsvonchiaing

Mossy Monk wrote:

mine say made in portugal, so does my arsenal jersey

They are (both) probably made in Vietnam. They are then shipped to Europe where a robotic production line puts on the finishes touches. E.g. the Nike sticker.

Intel chips are this in reverse. They are made here - the wafer is diffused here - it is cut up and packaged in Asia. Wafer diffusion is not labour intensive - cutting the wafer is. Hence, where it is done...

Despite all this I would not regard Intel, Nike, Coke McDonalds etc as the evil empire. I really have to reserve this for tobacco companies. It has been argued that there's an element of choice here... However, what they have done is free-based nicotine and other addictives using ammonia etc. Equivalent to turning cocaine into crack. This was initially banned by govts. The boys with the illegal drinking den (not Stormount - think further south). let this go... These are also the evil empire's lackeys!

All that said Martin does what he says on the tin - fair play to him!

billy the squid

Has anybody mentioned Tony O'Rielly. Personally I think he is the embodiment of evil. catching all those people by exploiting their lack of knowledge about porn diallers.

lizbeth

An addition to the list...
Enron.

You can go to Microcache (a locally-owned computer store) and see the Crooked E sign that was auctioned off for $44,000.

Piste

How many of you anti-Nike people are wearing Converse who are owned by Nike? www.adbusters.org have designed a neo-converse shoe which is fairly manufactured and is dedicated to kicking Phil Night's Arse. Check it out.

tba

is dunnes stores an evil clothing line?

DapperGent

Ugh... Coke.

It used to have me in it's sweet dark grip but no longer. Fizzy drinks are just bad, really really bad. As far as I'm concerned the best thing anyone can do for their general health (besides giving up smoking - something I haven't managed) is to give up soft drinks.

The amount of nutrionally void energy in them is just staggering running at the equivalent of ten teaspoons of sugar for a can of coke. Compounding the problem is their stark inabilty to hydrate your body leaving your body still thirsty and unable to vent out toxins etc. There were scary figures I was reading about the amount of people who go through their daily lives constantly dehydrated and being none the wiser.

Our bodies are supposed to be recieving large quantaties of water every day - it's just the way they're designed. Compunding the problem is the neurological mix up that can occur where a body can confuse the thrist with hunger - delivering hunger pangs when all the body is a few glasses of water.

I found it quite shocking the increase in energy/well being I felt when I gave up soft drinks and moved on to water with the occasional fruit juice/coffee. It was tough at the start making sure I drank the proper amount of water each day - I was having 3 or 4 pints a day. Problems like going to the toilet all the time, but after a relatively short time I just started feeling great which was nice. I didn't experience the sugar pangs so much maybe I got lucky or maybe cause I was substituting so much water, I dunno.

I'm not really a big health freak or anything. It's just that soft drinks are just wrong, I'd really encourage anyone to try giving them up and starting to drink loads of water, you'll feel loads better and it won't take that long to feel the effects. Also you'll probably lose a considerable amount of tub both from cutting out the huge amounts of energy carbonated drinks give you and by probably giving yourself less of an appetite.




I dunno about this whole coke/mcdonalds/nike being evil stuff though. Certainly the negative social consequences of their business activities have been well documented, but the invective thrown at them seem to correspond to a thinking that people in general are socially concerned, caring unselfish beings who if given the opportunity to freely choose activities will normally choose socially enlightened ones, full of care for their fellow man etc. rather than adopting a least effort, most profit, me first, fúck the vulnerable kind of attitude.

Clearly that's bollox. The activities of the bold multinationals simply reflect the fact that if people are given the opportunity to do whatever the fúck they want they invariably end up being assholes to each other.

I don't hate these huge corporations they're just doing what comes naturally, ie ignoring the social rules of enlightened self interest that our civilisations are built on in favour of the atavistic selfishness which returns to us when we're allowed to act in a vacuum.

This is (IMO) akin to the type of human behaviour that existed before the rule of law and nationhood which over time gained acceptance in the human psyche due to the fact that despite it's curbing of freedoms it allowed the best chance of survival, comfortable existance and less frequent occasions of other people being complete assholes to you.

What I really hate is the laziness, lack of imagination and fear that international bodies and powerful governments display when faced with the clear and distinct need to regulate these behemoths. A putting of the foot down from those whose responsibility it is do so is clearly and starkly needed.Unfortunatly it would appear that the most powerful individuals in the world, those whose job it is to look after not just the prosperity of humanity but it's social fabric are either blind to the problem or lack the will to tackle it.

I reserve my hate for those people. They're ****.

tipperaryboy

Coke is evil in one way.Their a massive company that get all the money that they make and keep it all to themselves and dont hardly pay their workers a penny.

parsi

Indeed..how much of this invective is directed towards a company that all English speakers know about ? addidas operate from Vietnam as well...so do most companies but the invctive is reserved fot those companies that are well known in the US market..

How come no-one has boycotts of techno goods manufacurers...?

Doper Than U

Drinking Coke right now... Oh dark mother, once again I suckle at your malty teat...


ps. Exploitation is wrong.